You will not mistake the newspaperman - looks like a big turtle - published a letter meant to embarrass me.

You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle.

I was not born to crush my own kind.

Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them.

John Muir, Earth — planet, Un

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc.

People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?

Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.

I never had a piece of toast particularly long and wide, But fell upon the sanded floor, And always on the buttered side.

Those waters which leave the main stream either cannot reach the sea and disappear in inland or find a better place, a beautiful lake.

The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.

My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.

I don't go to a lot of parties or do a lot of going out within, like, the Hollywood circle or celebrity-type circles and things like that.